I buy most of my new stuff from Dale as well.
My point is that if I can earn points for seeing movies that I would have seen anyway, and use those points to get official, double sided new release posters that run $20 - $40 from Dale and EMP all day long, in mint condition for an extra $3 per shipping tube, I am coming out on the good. I think it would be hard to argue otherwise.
Should I not have to pay for them to ship them properly, of course. But $3 is worth the time of not having to email customer service, get a return slip, and take the tube to the post to return them b/c they are damaged.
Do you pay insurance on tubes you post? Of course you do b/c the postal system is shit and stuff get's damaged and lost all the time. Should we 'have' to have insurance, no. If something happens to our package the post should take full responsibility, but they don't, so we pay them extra.
Me paying $3 extra on my 'free' items is just another way of paying insurance.